Hacker News Reader

To me it's Alastair Reynolds, and then everybody else. When I read "Revelation Space" it was, er, a Revelation. In addition to the many books R.S. universe (spanning across great swaths of time) there is also the fun Revenger series, and several non-canonical short stores, etc.

Of course, Ian Banks (RIP) is also great fun.

View on HN

I also enjoyed what I read of Revelation Space. I really liked how not having faster than light travel played a role. I kind of lost interest when so many of the books revolved around that same planet. There is a whole universe out there that I want to learn more about. I don't care about the rust belt or whatever it was called.

FWIR the R.S. universe wasn't planet centric and the books literally span one side of the universe to another, with timescales from one lifetime to entities measuring their lives in galactic rotations. Are you talking about Chasm City maybe? Anyway, it's about time for me to re-read -- I've been holding off as a treat - it's been 18 years since I read that first book!

I think “house of suns“, which is not R.S. is maybe one of the best sci fi books I’ve ever read. I’ve only also read chasm city by him but I thought “House of Suns” was leaps and bounds better

Reply on news.ycombinator.com